Trends

• 2019

  

  Commercialization of Space

  In this trend, we analyze how the advancement of technology is enabling the commercialization of space and the development of new industrial applications in orbit as manufacturing and research or new technologies of communication and observation.

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• 2018

  

  Disruptive cities

  This trend analyses the evolution of cities in the next decade, making in smart and disruptive cities.

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• 2017

  

  Longevity

  In this trend, our experts analyze the main consequences of the ageing population for companies and society, as well as the opportunities it provides for innovation.

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• 2017

  

  Business Model Disruption

  In last years, we are witnessing a radical acceleration of innovation and the creation of new business models thanks to technological development. This FTF trends will explore what new business models will generate the new generation of disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, Blockchains, robotics, etc.

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• 2016

  

  Digital Health

  This trend analyzes how the digital revolution has reached health. The expert of the Future Trends Forum analyzed this new revolution to develop a new map of digital health, with its barriers and benefits as well as identifying stakeholders involved (patients, health professionals, public service) in accelerating digital health.

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• 2016

  

  Technology and inequality

  This trend analyses the potential of technology to combat inequality in society, through the improvement of services and opportunities for all of society, whether in developed or emerging economies.

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• 2015

  

  Cybersecurity

  This trend analyzes the development of cybersecurity around transparency, surveillance and privacy, as it becomes a driver for new business opportunities.

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• 2015

  

  The machine revolution

  This trend has analyzed how new technological developments (the Internet, robotics, artificial intelligence, etc.) will boost employment and labor markets in the next decade.

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• 2014

  

  Big Data and human performance

  This trend analyzes the study of human behavior and its implications for individuals, business and governments from a data-driven perspective.

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• 2014

  

  The future of currencies

  This trend analyzes new innovation trends in connection with the new financial services.

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• 2013

  

  The Keys for the new global balance

  This trend presents the proposals of our think thank on the new flows of capital (human, financial and intellectual) that will reshape the economic landscape for decades to come.

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• 2013

  

  Superhumans

  This trend examines the scientific and technological progresses that increase and enhance human capabilities.

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• 2012

  

  Unemployment in development economies

  This trend discusses the problem of unemployment in developed economies.

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• 2012

  

  A Road Map for increased innovation in Pharma

  This trend analyzes the new landscape shaped for pharmaceutical innovation with all the stakeholders involved.

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• 2011

  

  Education in the twenty first century

  This trend analyzes education as the final variable that determines future economic growth in this century.

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• 2011

  

  Social Technologies

  This trend analyzes the latest technological trend that is changing our environment: the social technologies.

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• 2010

  

  Internet of things

  This trend analyzes a technology that enables connecting to the net any conceivable object, thus becoming smart and offering endless possibilities.

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• 2010

  

  The art of innovation and entrepreneurship

  Tendencia que analiza los ingredientes necesarios para que la innovación y el espíritu emprendedor tengan lugar en nuestra sociedad.

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• 2009

  

  Cloud Computing

  This trend analyzes the cloud: a revolutionary access to technology, enabling individuals and companies to access computer services.

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• 2009

  

  Social innovation

  This trend identifies the strategies to follow in order to achieve a model of social and economic organization underpinned by ethical values and sustainable development.

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• 2008

  

  Mobile technologies

  This trend analyzes the newfound openness of the mobile market and how it affects the supply of devices and services. It provides some clues on how to seize upcoming opportunities in the industry.

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• 2008

  

  Competing in challenging times

  This trend analyzes the new multipolar world order, characterized by a greater weight of emerging economies, and it delves into new rules of the game that will set the dynamics of markets where investors, companies, governments and consumers coexist.

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• 2007

  

  New consumers

  This trend analyzes the causes and consequences of the singularity of global aging and immigration as new factors in trade and business trends.

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• 2007

  

  Web 2.0

  This trend offers a general and comprehensive vision of the Web 2.0 and its impact on social networks.

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• 2006

  

  Innovation: the wealth of nations

  This trend defines the concept of innovation, and gives a diagnosis of the current state of affairs around the world while analyzing its implications and their influence in competitiveness and productivity.

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• 2006

  

  Energy: the challenge of demand

  This trend analyzes the combination of finite resources with unstoppable demand and how a production unable to accompany the pace of consumption will produce tensions in the global economy.

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• 2005

  

  China

  This trend analyzes how to face the challenge of China since it decided to open up to the outside world and its global impact.

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• 2005

  

  Nanotechnology

  This trend analyzes the development of the science and nanoscale engineering and its impact on society.

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• 2004

  

  3G/UMTS

  This trend discusses the likely future awaiting the new generation of mobile phones known as 3G.

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• 2004

  

  Personalized medicine

  This trend analyzes the new medical environment that will allow the progressive application of preventive and curative treatments based on genetic information.

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• 2003

  

  RFID

  This trend analyzes the radio frequency identification technology (RFID) installed in objects to transmit data to an RFID receiver and its commercial implications.

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